Human Rights

“More than 8,500 Palestinians have been arrested between 27 February and 20 May, many of them arbitrarily detained. These arrests and detentions were accompanied by a consistent pattern of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and sometimes torture,” Amnesty International said in a report released today.

Amnesty International is extremely dismayed at the decision by the Court of Appeal of Brussels that declared a complaint concerning the “Sharon” case inadmissible.

As Israel reoccupies villages and towns in the West Bank the Palestinian population suffers the effects of widespread security measures such as prolonged curfews, house demolitions or administrative detention that amount to collective punishment, said Amnesty International today.

The UN Secretary-General’s report released today, which is consistent with many of Amnesty International’s findings, underscores the need for a thorough, on-the-spot investigative inquiry into the reports of grave human rights abuses that occurred in the context of the Israeli army incursions into Jenin and other cities last April.

In the early hours of Tuesday, Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombarded a two-store building in Gaza, killing fifteen Palestinians, including women and children, and wounding approximately one hundred residents.

Palestinian detainees at ‘Ofer detention center near Ramallah suffer severe shortages of basic needs of life. The prison authority at ‘Ofer detention center has refused to provide or allow basic needs for detainees.

Today, the Israeli parliament (‘Knesset’) passed approved a law which severely infringes the basic rights of persons injured by the Israeli occupation army from obtaining compensation.

Yesterday, Israeli settlers in Hebron killed 14-years old Palestinian girl, Nivin Jamjoum. She was fatally wounded in her right eye with a bullet shot from an M16 machinegun.

Yesterday, Sunday, July 28, 2002, Israeli forces demolished the home of Musa Jaradat in Wadi Burqeen in the Jenin distrcit. The three-floor building is owned by Musa Jaradat and his son Majdi, who was extra-judicially executed in May 2001 in Jenin refugee camp.

Yesterday evening, Israeli forces raided the village of al-Mizra’a al-Sharkiya in the Ramallah district, killing 18-years old Mamon al Zibin and wounding 17-years old Ahmad Abu Alia. Mamon al-Zibin was shot in his back.